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• “Synthetic Marijuana” Has Nothing to Do with Actual Marijuana

  16-09-2015 23:11 via thestranger.com
  
  Real pot versus fake pot—can you spot the difference? bk
  Over the past couple of months, newspapers and TV stations across the United States have been running with horror stories about K2, spice, and others kinds of “synthetic marijuana.” A recent article in the New York Times, for example, described a few blocks in East Harlem where “joints” were selling for a dollar, users were either passing out or twitching uncontrollably, and cops and ambulances idled, waiting
  
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• Nearly nude man fights to keep photographing sunbathing 'gals'

  16-09-2015 23:00
  
  If you know David Zaitzeff, it's probably as the guy circling Green Lake wearing a thong and bearing a sign offering free hugs and kisses. Now, though, Zaitzeff hopes to walk into court to attack Seattle's voyeurism law.
  
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• Guest Editorial: Want a Strategy for Getting More State Education Funding? Here's a Strategy.

  16-09-2015 22:57 via thestranger.com
  
  Community organizer Noel Frame argues that progressives need a statewide strategy to win popular votes for more school funding. Kelly O
  I’ve waited nearly 20 years for Olympia to fix our regressive and inequitable tax structure, and I can’t wait any longer.You see, I’ve been a vocal proponent of fixing our state’s broken school funding system since its negative effects hit me personally as a student at Battle Ground High School in the southwest corner of our state. And I&
  
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• SPD’s new technology chief is familiar face around City Hall

  16-09-2015 22:50
  
  Bill Schrier, a familiar face around Seattle City Hall, will be returning to the city’s payroll, this time as the Seattle Police Department’s new chief information officer.
  
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• SPD’s new tech chief is familiar face around City Hall

  16-09-2015 22:50
  
  Bill Schrier, a retired longtime city employee, will be returning, this time as the Seattle Police Department’s new chief information officer.
  
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• You Have Two Weeks Left to HUMP!

  16-09-2015 22:09 via thestranger.com
  
  Hey, filmmakers, porn stars, porn-star wannabes, show-offs, kinksters, regular folks, and all other creative types: It's time to make a short porn film—five minutes max—for HUMP! 2015. Now, maybe you're thinking, "I love making short films as much as the next iMovie-haver, but there's no way I'm getting into the pornography business..." GET YOUR MIND OUT OF THE GUTTER! Who said porn has to be "porny"? …
  
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• A Peek Inside Seattle’s Newest Gluten-Free Cafe and Bakery, Niche

  16-09-2015 22:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Matasar and crew. KR
  As Angela just mentioned, Seattle got another new gluten-free bakery/cafe today, Niche. Naturally, as The Stranger's gluten-free person on staff, I had to rush over and try it.Located on 12th Avenue at E Columbia Street, across from Seattle University, Niche is much more of a cafe than a bakery (so far at least), as its menu is mostly composed of panini, toast, and waffles (it's also got salads, a burger, and a kid-friendly menu of snacks like almond butter and crackers). Ev
  
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• Kid Brings Clock to School and Gets Arrested Because His Teacher Thought It Could Be a Bomb

  16-09-2015 21:51 via thestranger.com
  
  Scientists and engineers of color using #IStandWithAhmed to show solidarity with #AhmedMohamed http://t.co/wOVeGYwEr5 pic.twitter.com/wcFz9zRNkw
  — Fusion (@ThisIsFusion) September 16, 2015
  No charges will be brought against 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, who was arrested in Irving, Texas on Monday for showing his English teacher a clock he'd built at home.
  This morning, Chief of Police Larry Boyd said that Ahmed was arrested and detained in juvie “for his safety and for the safety of the
  
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• Blocking the Export-Import Bank: US. is losing jobs and business is losing patience

  16-09-2015 21:47
  
  The U.S. House of Representatives is fiddling and feuding over renewal of the U.S. Export-Import Bank while U.S. jobs take flight, Democratic House leaders warned Wednesday in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner. “It has been over two months since the Export-Import Bank shut down, cutting off financing assistance to American businesses and putting them at a significant disadvantage with global competitors that have the support of 85 foreign export credit agencies,” said the letter
  
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• 3 dead, 4 missing in Zion National Park after flash flooding

  16-09-2015 21:44
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Heavy rain sent flash floods coursing through a narrow slot canyon in southern Utah’s Zion National Park, killing three people and leaving four others missing, officials said Tuesday. Three bodies were found a day after the group of four men and three women set out Monday to hike down the […]
  
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• Debate resumes in Las Vegas about Nevada nuclear dump idea

  16-09-2015 21:42
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The debate resumed Tuesday in Nevada about the possibility of radioactive contamination of the underground water supply from a proposed national nuclear waste repository in the desert near where nuclear weapons tests were conducted for decades. Familiar faces and arguments in the decades-long long battle over the Yucca Mountain repository turned […]
  
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• Researchers shoot pigs in the head in blood-spatter study

  16-09-2015 21:41
  WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — An animal rights group said Wednesday that New Zealand researchers who secured live pigs to a surgical table and shot them in the head with a pistol as part of a study on blood-spatter patterns acted cruelly, and has urged them to end such experiments. But the government-funded Institute of […]
  
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• A 45-acre park over I-5? See architect's grand plan for Seattle

  16-09-2015 21:30
  
  This architect's concept for a park covering I-5 and much more is up there with some of the grandest Seattle plans that Seattleites have quietly passed over, only to later regret.
  
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• Hwy. 520 worker’s death caused by broken safety cable

  16-09-2015 21:18
  
  The death of a Highway 520 bridge worker happened in part because a safety cable hit a steel edge and severed, state investigators found.
  
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• Apple touts environmental upgrade in latest iPhones

  16-09-2015 21:13
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple has given its latest iPhones an environmental upgrade to go along with a better camera and a few new features. The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus have reduced their carbon emissions by 14 to 16 percent from last year’s models, according to Apple measurements that quantify how much pollution is […]
  
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• In Food News: Nate's Wings & Waffles and Niche Gluten-Free Cafe Are Open, Cafe Flora Hosts a Memorial for KC Boehly

  16-09-2015 21:06 via thestranger.com
  
  The fried chicken wings from Nate's Wings & Waffles are now available in the Central District.Kelly O
  Nate's Wings & Waffles Is Open in the Central District• The Central District outpost of the Rainier Beach restaurant Nate's Wings & Waffles, owned in part by local basketball legend Nate Robinson, is now serving the same menu of terrific fried chicken wings and rotating, creative waffle specials (pumpkin pie, green tea, root beer float). There are also seven different dipping sa
  
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• We'll Be Liveslogging Round Two of the Republican Debates at 3 pm and then at 5 pm

  16-09-2015 20:49 via thestranger.com
  
  #pdx artist @levysarahm painted @realDonaldTrump w/ own menstrual blood. 500 4sale $ donated http://t.co/RbJZmklAtM pic.twitter.com/PGG5Abdr4a
  — Shelby King (@shelby_king) September 15, 2015
  In response to Donald Trump's suggestion that Megyn Kelly's menstrual cycle might have contributed to her "harsh" treatment of him during the first Republican debate, Portland artist Sarah Levy painted this portrait of Donald Trump with her own menstrual blood. Its title: Whatever.I would love for Levy
  
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• Donald Trump's Revolting Comments on Militarization and Immigration, Joe Biden's Comments on Trump's Revoltingness

  16-09-2015 20:06 via thestranger.com
  
  Did you see Donald's speech yesterday about how our military needs to be waaaaaay bigger and we need a fence and brown people are the worst and all the rest? If you really didn't want to eat breakfast but you did and you need something to compel it all to come back out through your face, here you go:In response, today Joe Biden calls it "a sick message" that Trump is peddling: [ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Washington’s unemployment rate holds steady at 5.3 percent

  16-09-2015 19:21
  
  Washington’s unemployment rate holds steady at 5.3 percent
  
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• 2 dead after car crashes in Kent woods

  16-09-2015 19:18
  
  One man was found dead inside a crashed car “deep in the woods” in Kent while a second died at the hospital later.
  
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• 1 dead, 1 hurt after car crashes in Kent woods

  16-09-2015 19:18
  
  A man was found dead inside a crashed car “deep in the woods” in Kent.
  
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• Chinese leader Xi’s Seattle visit confirmed

  16-09-2015 18:57
  
  It’s official: Seattle will be the first stop for Chinese President Xi Jinping in the U.S. when he makes his first state visit to the White House next week.
  
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• The Last Days Crisis Is Over (for Me)

  16-09-2015 18:45 via thestranger.com
  
  The last 16 years of gawkworthy crime, human bloopers, and adult children hoarding the corpses of their dead parents.
  Hello readers, David Schmader here, hope this finds you well. You are now reading the last-ever Last Days column to be written by me. After 16 years (???!!! ), I am giving up the task of wrangling each week's tornado of tragedy, scandal, and corpse-hoarding into a thousand cumulatively coherent words for the greener pastures of not having a goddamn Google alert go off every time
  
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• Record Southern California rain swamps roads, swells rivers

  16-09-2015 18:45
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A record-breaking storm slammed parched Southern California on Tuesday, cutting off power to thousands, jamming traffic during the morning commute and stranding some people in surging waterways. Downtown Los Angeles saw a staggering 2.39 inches, breaking a record for rainfall for the date and marking the second-wettest 24-hour period on record […]
  
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• Muslim boy, 14, won’t be charged for making clock mistaken for bomb

  16-09-2015 18:09
  
  Irving, Texas, police say they will not charge a 14-year-old boy whose teachers were alarmed when he brought a homemade clock to his
  
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• In California, Biden aims to build resolve for climate pact

  16-09-2015 18:05
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Reaching for a successful end to global climate talks, Vice President Joe Biden will call on other nations to commit to ambitious cuts in greenhouse gases at a gathering of U.S. and Chinese leaders on Wednesday in Los Angeles. Biden’s address to the U.S.-China Climate Leaders Summit was designed to lay the […]
  
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• Morning News: Teachers Say They Won Contract Fight, 43rd District Democrats Won't Endorse Sawant Challenger

  16-09-2015 17:56 via thestranger.com
  
  "Let's be clear, we won the fight on this contract," Phyllis Campano told KING 5.Ansel Herz
  Seattle Teachers Say They Won, School Starts Tomorrow: The Seattle Education Association's general membership won't vote on the new contract until Sunday, but last night, the union's representative assembly approved it. The district hasn't released a detailed explanation of what's in the deal, but according to SEA, the contract specifies the following (meaning the union achieved most of what it wanted):&b
  
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• Early shoppers line up for tax-free weed in Colorado

  16-09-2015 17:15
  
  DENVER (AP) — Marijuana consumers were taking advantage of a tax holiday in Colorado on Wednesday, with some lining up early for doorbuster-style deals. A quirk in state law led Colorado to suspend most taxes on recreational pot for one day, including a 10 percent sales tax on pot and a 15 percent excise tax […]
  
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• Bodies of husband, wife found in mobile home near Poulsbo

  16-09-2015 15:15
  
  Kitsap County Sheriff's officials say they are investigating the deaths of a husband and wife found in a mobile home.
  
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• Undersea quake rocks eastern Indonesia; no tsunami warning

  16-09-2015 15:12
  JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A strong undersea earthquake has struck off eastern Indonesia, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage and no tsunami warning was issued. The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude-6.3 quake that struck Wednesday afternoon was centered 140 kilometers (87 miles) northeast of Bitung, a coastal town on Sulawesi […]
  
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• Convicted robber files claim against Snohomish County

  16-09-2015 15:12
  
  A convicted bank robber has filed a legal claim against Snohomish County in connection to injuries he sustained during his 2012 arrest.
  
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• Federal grant to fund police radios in Franklin County

  16-09-2015 15:09
  
  Members of law enforcement in Franklin County are getting new radios through a federal grant.
  
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• Water restrictions hit Washington city of ‘Twilight’ fame

  16-09-2015 15:05
  
  The small Washington city whose frequently dismal and rainy atmosphere served as the backdrop of the "Twilight" vampire romance novels is facing emergency water restrictions.
  
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• Kelso teachers to strike Wednesday, schools closed

  16-09-2015 15:01
  
  Teachers in the southwestern Washington town of Kelso will go on strike Wednesday after last-minute talks with Kelso School District officials over pay and other issues failed.
  
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• Last Days: The Last 16 Years of Gawkworthy Crime, Human Bloopers, and Adult Children Hoarding the Corpses of Their Dead Parents

  16-09-2015 14:37 via thestranger.com
  
  Ombudsdog.
  Hello readers, David Schmader here, hope this finds you well. You are now reading the last-ever Last Days column to be written by me. After 16 years (???!!! ), I am giving up the task of wrangling each week's tornado of tragedy, scandal, and corpse-hoarding into a thousand cumulatively coherent words for the greener pastures of not having a goddamn Google alert go off every time a toddler fatally shoots his mom. (Just kidding: You'll have to pry my "toddler shoots mom" Google alert fr
  
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• Renewed effort needed to diversify teaching workforce, report finds

  16-09-2015 14:03
  
  Despite gains, the teaching workforce looks less and less like the students it serves, a new study finds.
  
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• The Highs, and Lows, of Everest

  16-09-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Highs, and Lows, of Everestby Erik HenriksenEverest shares the same subject as Jon Krakauer's book Into Thin Air: the Mount Everest disaster of 1996, when eight people died in an attempt to climb, and descend, the mountain. But Everest offers something Krakauer's prose can't: The stunning imagery of the Himalayas. If you don't see Everest on the biggest screen possible, you might as well not see it at all—but if you do see it on a giant screen, the film's jaw-dropping visuals will prov
  
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• The Complete Seattle Design Festival Schedule

  16-09-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Recommended by Charles Mudede & Jen Gravesby Stranger Things To Do[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Here's Pawn Sacrifice, an Obligatory Bobby Fischer Biopic

  16-09-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Here's Pawn Sacrifice, an Obligatory Bobby Fischer Biopicby Eric D. SniderThe Bobby Fischer biopic Pawn Sacrifice seems to have been made not because someone had insight into the chess champion's character, but because someone realized Bobby Fischer was famous but didn't have a biopic yet.Directed with earnest blandness by Edward Zwick (Glory, The Last Samurai) from a script by Steven Knight (Eastern Promises), the film follows the standard biopic formula, starting with Bobby as an intense, prec
  
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• Confused, and Running, Through Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

  16-09-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Confused, and Running, Through Maze Runner: The Scorch Trialsby Marjorie SkinnerThe Maze Runner series may deservedly live in the shadow of YA book-to-film darling The Hunger Games, but it's got a few things going for it. Handsome and brave Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) leads the cast of plucky, likeable teenagers as they face a mysterious threat in the form of WCKD, the powerful scientific entity that rules their post-apocalyptic world. The series is short on explanations, so watch the first Maze Runn
  
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• Can Lily Tomlin Be My Grandma?

  16-09-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Can Lily Tomlin Be My Grandma?by Megan BurbankThe year 2007 saw the release of Juno, Waitress, and Knocked Up—all movies whose protagonists face unplanned pregnancies, but none seek an abortion, despite being in situations where it might be a good idea (see: high school, an abusive relationship, Seth Rogen). It was as if the filmmakers didn't think a movie about an abortion could be interesting. But last year's Obvious Child was evidence to the contrary, and so is Paul Weitz's Grandma.In G
  
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• Black Mass Is Another Excuse for Johnny Depp to Wear Goofy Makeup

  16-09-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Black Mass Is Another Excuse for Johnny Depp to Wear Goofy Makeupby Andrew WrightLook, I'm not saying that any harm should come to whoever first compared Johnny Depp to Marlon Brando, but I do hope that they at least feel a little bit guilty. While their raw talent may well be comparable, Depp moved far too quickly to his idol's final phase as a performer, where self-amusement and silly voices trump everything else.Touted as a return to Depp's early form, the gangster saga Black Mass encouraging
  
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• UW doctors test ‘heart in a box’ to boost scarce transplants

  16-09-2015 06:30
  UW Medicine is one of seven sites nationwide where heart-transplant doctors will test a new device that keeps organs warm and beating during transport, potentially boosting the number of usable organs.
  
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• UW docs test ‘heart in a box’ to boost scarce transplants

  16-09-2015 06:30
  
  UW Medicine is one of seven sites nationwide where heart-transplant doctors will test a new device that keeps organs warm and beating during transport, potentially boosting the number of usable organs.
  
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• Yussef El Guindi, Winner of the 2015 Stranger Genius Award in Literature

  16-09-2015 05:53 via thestranger.com
  
  Yussef El Guindi, Winner of the 2015 Stranger Genius Award in Literatureby Brendan KileyWAS:Rejected from every acting program he applied to so became a playwright instead.WRITES ABOUT:Immigrants in America and the inseparability of sex and politics.WORRIES THAT:He won't be able to afford to live in Seattle much longer.At the age of 15, Yussef El Guindi told his father that he wanted to be an actor. The El Guindi family was full of artists—actors, directors, and writers going back for gene
  
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• What the Strike Teaches Our Kids

  16-09-2015 05:53 via thestranger.com
  
  As a Parent, a Musician, and an Activist, I’m Glad Our Kids Are Learning That Change Is Possible If We Rise Upby Kimya Dawson[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• To Really Fix Seattle’s Schools, We May Need to Shut Down All the Schools in the State

  16-09-2015 05:53 via thestranger.com
  
  Our Local Public-Education Mess Is a Symptom of a Larger Problemby Jen Graves[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• The Evidence of Human Presence

  16-09-2015 05:53 via thestranger.com
  
  John Luther Adams's Experimental Composition <i>Inuksuit</i> Requires the Evidence of Your Presenceby Roger DowneyI want you to change any plans you have for this weekend and make room for a Saturday afternoon jaunt to Seward Park. If you do, I'm pretty sure you'll have your mind bent for you in a permanent fashion by encountering John Luther Adams's hour-long soundscape for drums and obbligato audience Inuksuit.It's hard to convey the effect of Inuksuit in performance, particularly
  
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• The 2015 Stranger Genius Awards

  16-09-2015 05:53 via thestranger.com
  
  And the Winners Are...by Sean NelsonNot to brag, but the Genius Awards is obviously the most important, most enjoyable, and most sensual arts event of the season. The Moore Theatre is gorgeous, the Seattle Rock Orchestra sounded amazing, and the live performances by OCnotes, Chastity Belt, Roberto Ascalon, and Cherdonna were transcendent. Hey, look, we can have nice things!Everyone knows what artists want, but it simply isn't feasible for everyone to get sexual favors all day long every day. So
  
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• Scarecrow Project, Winner of the 2015 Stranger Genius Award in Film

  16-09-2015 05:53 via thestranger.com
  
  Scarecrow Project, Winner of the 2015 Stranger Genius Award in Filmby Charles MudedeCARRIES:More than 120,000 titles, including many rare and out-of-print titles that are unavailable anywhere else.BECAME:A nonprofit foundation in 2014. The Scarecrow Project offers memberships beginning at $50 a year.IS:So much better and more important than Netflix it isn't even funny, you guys.Two years ago, the future of this city's biggest and most culturally significant video store, Scarecrow Video, was dark
  
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